Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, United States
Kafka
Serverless
Technical Direction
AWS
AWS Lambda
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Staff Software Engineer

Join Samsara as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on our Developer Ecosystem and its critical role in the company's broader data and AI strategy. You will be a key technical leader, responsible for architecting and guiding high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that shape the future of our external integrations.

This role is pivotal in connecting our core developer products (API, Eventing, Lambdas, Marketplace) to the company's next-generation AI and data platforms. You will be a force-multiplier, empowering our largest enterprise customers and our internal engineering teams to build scalable, intelligent, and deeply integrated solutions on the Samsara platform.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in Poland or the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

  • Architect the end-to-end data integration strategy, evolving our high-throughput Eventing platform (Kafka) into a comprehensive data pipeline
  • Drive the strategy and architecture for our serverless compute (Lambda) capabilities, enabling developers to run complex logic
  • Establish and champion the technical vision and architectural governance for our external API framework, ensuring consistency, scalability, and a world-class developer experience across all of Samsara's product lines.
  • Act as a technical leader across the organization, mentoring senior engineers, leading design reviews for complex systems, and aligning stakeholders toward a unified technical direction.
  • Partner with senior leadership (Product, Engineering) and our largest enterprise customers to define and execute a multi-year technical vision for Samsara's developer and data platform.
  • Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Requirements
  • Deep, systems-level expertise in designing, building, and operating high-throughput, large-scale data streaming systems (e.g., Kafka).
  • Proven experience in architecting and implementing AI-first data strategies, with a strong understanding of how event streams (Kafka) integrate with data lakes and data warehouses in a modern LakeHouse architecture.
  • Demonstrable experience with serverless compute architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda) and their associated design patterns and trade-offs.
  • Extensive experience in designing, building, and providing governance for large-scale, public-facing APIs (GraphQL preferred).
  • A track record of leading complex, multi-team, and multi-quarter technical initiatives from inception to delivery.
An ideal candidate also has
  • Experience with managed event streaming platforms (e.g., Amazon MSK, Azure Event Hubs, Google Cloud Pub/Sub).
  • Deep familiarity with cloud data warehousing and data lake solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).
  • Experience with ML/AI model deployment and MLOps infrastructure.
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, United States
Kafka
Serverless
Technical Direction
AWS
AWS Lambda
More jobs from this company
views: 0

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